Quotes About Strategy

Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

An entrepreneur in debt is an entrepreneur in business.

I have always believed you cannot run a successful enterprise from behind a desk.

I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

The time to go into a new business is when it's badly run by others.

When you're in business, if you have some sort of gimmick it's a huge advantage.

Whatever policy we adopt, there must be an energetic prosecution of it. For this purpose it must be somebody's business to pursue and direct it incessantly.

Any prudent business looks at the reality and how to maximize our investment.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

I can help someone grow their business 130% in 12 to 18 months only because I've done that with so many of my own and have faced so many challenges.

Advertisements may be evaluated scientifically; they cannot be created scientifically.

I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them.

Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.

Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all times.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning beforehand. You really can't over-prepare in business!

We've had public companies in the past in that business and they bleed. We've got a lot more blood than they do.

When we start a new venture, we base it on hard research and analysis. Typically, we review the industry and put ourselves in our customer's shoes to see what we could do better.

I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.

If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.

One thing the military does far better than business is train its own leaders. I can't go to IBM and hire a battalion commander. They don't have any.

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

The real fortunes in this country have been made by people who have been right about the business they invested in, and not right about the timing of the stock market.